A sad story, but you missed pointing out the fact that instead of just one kitten, it was two kittens, Death was cheated on his first plan, so plan B goes into action, even though the kitten that was destined to be crushed, was rescued from that fate only to still die, but a second kitten was sacrificed to fulfill Plan A, of causing a mistress to see the cruelty of her married man, thus she came clean with his wife, and broke off the affair, the wife divorced the husband, all because he was a cruel man that liked to run over kittens, after the divorce and the wife getting 85 percent of everything he owned, he commited suicide and thus completed Deaths's plan A.